How To Register An Abandoned Trademark
If the uspto lists your trademark as dead or abandoned however this does not necessarily mean that the mark is available for registration.
How to register an abandoned trademark. Use the trademark electronic search system to research the status of the trademark s registration. Check the status of any registration or application to register the trademark using the databases maintained by any state where the trademark may have been used. In case you see the abandoned trademark already in use or registered by someone else then you would require filing a fresh application tm a. A search for the trademark can be performed online using the uspto s trademark electronic search system or with assistance from an online legal provider. To re register an abandoned trademark you need to conduct a thorough trademark search to make sure it is not in use currently.
The database helpfully offers information on whether a trademark registration or an application is live or dead. If you have considered this and still have interest in acquiring rights in an abandoned trademark it is possible to adopt it for your own business.